The Strauss Center is pleased to announce our project “Safe and Free: National Security Surveillance and the Rule of Law Across Democratic States” which aims to foster genuine comparative study on surveillance laws and oversight structures.
Safe and Free contributors include think-tankers, academics, former government officials, and journalists. Many have worked in, advised, or overseen their countries’ intelligence services or oversight bodies. Covered countries span the Five Eyes, Western Europe, Scandinavia, EU member states in post-Communist Europe, and advanced democracies in East Asia.
In essays by leading experts in nearly a dozen countries, the project explores the variety of ways in which rule-of-law states seek to align national-security surveillance with their values and laws. The goal: genuine comparative study, with the aim of generating insights to help improve our own systems and navigate political and technological currents affecting many advanced democracies.
Please check out our newest project at safeandfree.io.
Adam Klein, Director of the Strauss Center for International Security and Law, was quoted in an article in Dispatch on "FISA's Section 702 Has Lapsed. Now What?". Section 702's authority on surveilling non-Americans abroad lapsed for the first time on June 12. “The relative constitutional clarity that 702 provides should be seen as stabilizing and protective, and so for that...
After Congress allowed Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to expire over the weekend, Strauss Center Director Adam Klein provided his perspective to The Christian Science Monitor in their article "Congress lets part of spy law lapse. What's next for counterterrorism efforts?" FISA Section 702 grants the U.S. government the ability to surveil non-U.S. persons abroad without...
Strauss Center Director Adam Klein was interviewed for The Christian Science Monitor on "Why the surveillance powers in FISA roil Congress – across party lines," which discusses the national security and privacy issues surrounding Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which is set to expire at the end of April. “Imagine that, today, an FBI agent is...